The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 28, 1918, Image 4
/^*^??^ ^e6jacaS&j and Saturday
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SU3CTKR, S. C.
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': r' --. "?*?
Advertisements.
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; "Byery subsequent insertion.. .. .50
Ocmtracts- for three months, or
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All commuuicatiojia ~ which sao
u Wrve/pritate interests will be charged
_ t?r:r?1aradvertisements*
?tetuarles, and tributes of- respeo:
v#21 be Charta for.
The Sumter Watchman was found
w :5n 1S50 and the- True Southron ir<
iSfJfe.r' The Watchman, and SoutL.-o.
?tow' Has the combined circulation am
in?iiettce of, both of the old papers
?ifid is. inanifesQy the. best advert ism
"fiKtiin in Sumter.
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JilBERTY LOANT MASS MEETING.
Krom The Daily Item, Sept. 26.
/The Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
wiiL-open tomorrow with a patriotic
crass meeting in the Opera House.
This meeting will sound the key
note of the Game Cock. County's pa
triotic sentiment and will show how
^substantial is our devotion to the
cause of liberty for the oppressed
. peoples of the world?for the Liberty
.Loan is the foundation upon which
*' acests aSX hopes and all aerations
of ?e world for freedom and democ
racy.; If the people of America do
not iuiitedly cooperate in laying.this
. foundation of .dollars broad an-5
"\eep and building it strong and im
pregnable the war -cannot be .prose
cuted with the fullest power of which;
" America: is capable and this netior
cannot make good , the solemn pledge
? of President Wilson to prosecute it
to a victorious termination by using
force, without stint or limit.
"Sumter county is a small part of
America,but-.if is a part of the great
y viioie," and we have a duty to dis
'dbarge .that is just as imperative a?
th_L which rests upon greater an?
ficiier places. If we do our full dut'
each individv.al will invest /to the.
limit of his or h?r ability in Xiberty
bbhds and will give of his time, with
out selfish considerations, to carry th
? campaign to a complete, and success
ful <H>ncIusion. The only thing tha.
airy one. can give in a "Liberty loan
^fUTtpaign is' his time, labor "and per
sonal influence?when he buys a bond
^he gives, nothing, but is obtaining th
best investment to be had in ' th;
world-today. The man who believes
or 3ays, he is giving to the govern
ment when he buys' a -bond, is C
slacker at heart; and we have grown
??S: veary of hearing many men, here
vand .elsewhere, say that they have
"contributed*' this or- that amount to
winning the war when they have In
vested some of their money in Libert
bonds. A man cannot be a rea
American \untilvhe'' gets out . of his
r ^ of t
per cent: interest and ^the hope e '
*'iJii^pD6^ of th?.
thing t? "bear in. mind is that
- liberty bond is neither a gift" to th.e
goVerixtnent n of a speculation, but ar, |
investment to aid the government in
its tnne of need and that he who buy.-;
a bond is doing no more than hi
plain/duty.
The mass meeting tomorrow will
v: be the/outward and visible sign; ?:|
. >?the quality of patriotism that per
||&neates this community, and no mat;
who has the spirit and the willing
ness to do his duty will stay awsry
^pCrom the meeting. The presence nr.C
? the personal influence of every loya
Citizen is neded to inaugurate the
Liberty loan campaign and the,whole
hearted co-operation of all is neces
sary to make the drive a complete
success?the full quota may be rais
ed; but it will notbeva full and com
plete success, unless every man, wo
man arid child in tHe county meas
. ures up to his or her responsibility. '!
LIBERTY LOAN XOTiCK.
To The Public:
Af/^E meeting of-Xhe Executive Com
mittee of the Fourth Liberty Loa*
Campaign, held today, they commit
tee being composed of the following:
C.. G. Rowland, Chairman; Neill
?O'Donnell, A. C. Phelps, J. P. Booth
'JSti X Bland and G. A. Lemmon, the
following resolution was adopted af
ter a full discussion of the conditions
.attending thj Fourth Lihei-ty, loan
campaign:
"That it is the sense of the commit
tee who are familiar with* the. finan
-cial standing of the citizens of this
county. tr*at the names of all who do
not subscribe to Liberty bonds in pro
portion to, their means, or who do
not subscribe at all, be published in
the newspapers and regarded as slack
ers."
In accordance with the above reso
lution it is therefore my duty as
chairman of the Fourth Liberty Loan
campaign for Sumter county to notify
oar citizens that they are expected to
make sacrifices on their part and sub
scribe to the limit of their ability to
the: new issue of Liberty bonds.
Ton .are no doubt familiar with the
fact that the allotment for Sumter
county is heavily ir. excess of the
Third loan. From information I havn
been able to obtain up to the present
time it will probably be around
$S 50,000.00 and the time for raising
this amount has been curtailed fron?
five. weeks to three weeks. The task
imposed upon the patriotic commit
tees who are willingly sacrificing thci
valuable time and ability is, there
fore, a heavy one and I earnestly ask
the citizens of Sumter county to bea:
this fact carefully in mind and sub
scribe promptly so that our allotment
can.be raised at the earliest possible
moment. It must be done and It i?
going to be done.
H. J. M'LAURIN. JR..
County Chairman
Waycross, Ga.. Sept: 24.?And:.
Reaves, a seventeen-year-old negr
charged with assaulting a three-yem
old white girl near Black Shear, wa
taken from officers who were bringin:
hinr. to. Wayerqss and lynched earl\
today. The body was found hangiir
r*n r> frp^on Wayer?s*:-Blackshea|
road, near the railroad shop.
j THE THIIVD PRXMAKY.
! Election Was Held at Only Ten of
The Twenty-six Ol'ibs in Simiiei
j Comity and Vote at These Was Very
Light.
Fxom The Daily Item, Sept. 26.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee met today to tabulate the
? returns-of the third primary, held to
?J nominate a candidate for the office
j of ^Comptroller General. There was
I so little interest in this election that !
I the polls were opened at only ten of
the twenty-six clubs in the county and .
at these precincts less than ten pei i
cent of the normal vote was polled j
The total vote for the c, dnty was 129, j
of which Elm ore received 11 and j
J Osborne 11?. The vote by clubs was \
(as-follows:
Elmore Osborne
Sumter, Ward 1.. . .1 14
Sumter, Ward 2 .. ..2 71
Sumter, Ward 4. 21
Concord. 18
Earle'. "9
Oswego.3 ' 9
Pisgah :..4 3
Privateer .. ...... 1G
Rafting Creek <. 11
Wedgefield .. .. ..1 ' 23
Total...IT* 118
PETTY JURY LIST.
JuiTOrs Drawn to Serve First Week ot
Oorrt Which Convenes October 7.
W.-.-G- Bestick,
. J. T. Green,
A. J. Ard.
j Alva Meileit,
W. T. Goodman,
R. K. Wilder,
I: R. W. Green,' . - ??
T. W. McColl,
W. E, Mims, ?
B. O'. HoIIiday,
. John J. Geddings,
" .'T.- L. Kahn,. . .
J. B. Tisdale, '
B. S. Moore,
Joel Benbow, .
J, L. Brown,
W. M. DeLorme, Jr..
J. A. Baker,
J. C. Rogers,
~ J. L. Brogdon,
L. W. Scott,
. A- T. Tisdale, v
T. D. Kinny,
J. D. Blanding,
J. F. Jeakins,
W. H. Srickland, *
A. J. Moses,
- T. S. Ross,
W,. M. Broadway,
M. M. Huggins. . ,
W. ?f- Brazial, *
V'Leopold Strauss,
J. C. Cooper, ^
^t,. n. white,
J. H. Strong, .c ?
^feE'^ Stoudenmire. \* G
COUNTY BOARD MEETINfc.
vi
j Bje*dgi*aticm of Clerk C. M- ^ffhrs: I
Accepted and E. W. Wilson Efcet [
ed. v ;
County >:' Board of- Oomnii^fem. j,
T. . .^.hetin -specIaT* - session- Tuesd-iy?4
^v/ith all members present, excep !
Commissioner Mims. The object c
themeeting was to take action dzjt ?ic
resignation of C. M. Hurst, clerk' o
the Board, recently appointed sheriff
and to' elect} his successor.
The resignation o/ Mr. Hurst" wa;
accepted and ah expression of tl^e-ap
preciation .of the Board for his em
citnt and faithful services and of re
?Tet at the .severance of his cormec
fion with the Board was placed or i
record.
Mr. Ernest W. Wilson was electei
clerk of the Poard and entered a
'ronce^ upon ?the discharge of h.
duties. Mr. Wilson has been con
nected with the National Bank o
Sumter for the past year.
Mr. A. vi. Warren was elected cot
?bn weigher on the recommendatio:
of the. City Council, and his bond n
..ne sum of $3(>y, was approved.
The bond of Mr. C. M. Hurst, a
I heriff. in the sum of $lo\000, was ap
proved.
The Board ordered the construe
Co** of a concrete bridge at the oi
Fox'worth Mill, the present bridg
oemg in a dipladidated condition.
?American Casualty List.
Washington, Sept. 24?The fol
lowing casualties are reported by th
Commanding General of the Ameri
can Expeditionary forces:
Killed in action, 121; missing in ac
tion, 24:; wounded severely, 63
died from wounds, 21; died from ac
cident and other causes. 4; died o
disease, 5; wounded, degree undeter
mined, 'i; wounded slight!}', 2; pris
oners, 5; Total, 23'j.
Summary of Marine Corps casual
ties to date: Officers: deaths^ 39
"wounded, (">"?, missing, 1 Total, !0".
Enlisted men: deaths ',000; wound
ed, 1946; in hands of enemy, 15
missing. 1g8. Total, 3,129.
? The following casualties are report
ed by the Commanding General oi
the American Expeditionary Force?
(included in above totai): Killed i
action, 1; died of wounds received in
action, 1; wounded in action (severe
ly% 7; wounded in action (degree un
determined, 1; missrhg in action, 10;
in hands of enemy, 1. Total, 21.
The following casualties are re
i ported by the Commanding Genera",
j of the American Expeditionary
i forces:
! Killed in action 15, missing inS&c
j tion 161, wounded severely 184, die.!
; from wounds 7, died of disease 5.
j wounded degree undetermined 1, die<!
i of accident and other causes 2, total
375.
j- Luke Rohletter. Battle Creek, S.
: C, is reported killed in action anri
: Grady L. Howard, Greenville, S. C.
and Henry T Waters. Liberty, S.
missing in action.
Washington. Sept. 24 ?The police
and fire officials are investigating r
fire that occurred early this morning
in the New" Wilbid Hotel. whV
caused damage estimated at one hun -
dred thousand dollars and sent bun
dreds of guests, including Vice Pres
ident Marshal and several diplomat '
scurrying to the lobbies and safety
The bla^e originated in th^ pantry o''"'
the palm room, but. was checked be
fore it spread far.
STAMP SAXES AKEf IMPROVING.
Amount Sold Was Much Larger, Dot
County Lofet a PoirE?The Street
Tables. J
The report for the sales of War
Savings Stamps for . the week ending
September fourteenth Was a great
improvement in one waV for it show
ed that the county had sold during
that week $5,337.50 against $981.25
the week before. At jtne end of the
week however, Sumter had lost yet
another.point in standing ' for she
had slipped from the '25th to 26th
place. Other counties .. had bought
more heavily than, wje had, is the ex
planation. . For example, in the two
weeks ending September 14th, little
Horry county' had bought ot" stamps
to the extent of $32,^65.25 and during
that same period Siimter's output
was $6,318.75, less than a fifth of
Horry's yet Sumter could put the
whole of Horry into-a. corner pocket.
If Sumter ever wants to make a?
creditable showing-in the matter of
helping the country through the buy
ing of War Savings stamps the peo
ple as a whole must simply wake up
and buy. To stay near the bottom of
the column mpnth after month is not
the usual Sumter way, but it seems to
be the way .developed lately. Some of
the Sumter people are doing their full
duty. Some are doing no. duty at all. j
?-.:
Every Tuesday and every Saturday
stamps may be- bought on the street.
There are four tables out these days.
On Tuesdays the Mitchell. table is
managed by Mrs. R. M. Hapner, the j
City National corner table by Mrs. J. j
R. Sumter, tbe Zemp table by Mrs. E.
P. Pitts, and the DeLorme table by
Mrs. M. IL Flaum. On Saturdays
these same tables are -' managed by
Miss Isadore Teicher, Miss Ma be:
Bowman, Mrs. C. D. McKnight and i
?Mrs. J. P. Maurer. The managers of j
the tables have, complete charge of
them, either presiding themselves or
having friends to take" charge. The
tables are' doing good work. For in
stance Mrs. Maurer "followed up her
first score of nearly nine hundred dol
lars two weeks ago by a sale of $640.
75 last Saturday. . High water mark,
however, has been set by . Mrs. Hapner j
whose table sold ' Tuesday - $1.069.75 \
worth of stamps. Mrs. W. B. Lyn an: j
was Mrs. Hapner's partner in the I
work.
Red Cross Xotcs.
?-' \
This is mr week-to -show the Bei |
?ian peor e hew much we are going i
to help with our. gifts of clothing i.oj
their Relief Commission. But these*
gifts are coming 'imt?n slowly. Surely ;
everyone must have "some clothes j
:Vom last winter, or the-winter before ;
that are not' heeded: Why let them
stay where they do-mo good? Or
perhaps you might think that it will
be possible to wear' them once o."
twice. Is that going to keep you fron j
g-iving them to the men and women'
tnd children / of you ?* allies who are i
In such dire need, of clothing? Let]
Lhe gifts come'in-'.*f^&t.er, citizens of }
/urr.tcr.-. ?Rcmembp?v|^jp.t.. vrntr-^oUot^ \
Is" S'.ojS-'pouhds," and wf^twe-arei v a
long way yet from reaching it, aiio
we must not fall short.
At the vacant-'store-^ under Mayor
Jennings' rinicer ? committee' will be
waiting to receive your gift to sota*
poor Belgian. It is up to you. no
make that gift 2s large as you can.
On next Monday, September 30th
the Surgical Dressings workroom wil.
be reopened. Mrs. Boykin " urg;
that as many helpers-as possible n.
present.
German Prisoners *at Work in I ranee.
.With the American Forces in
France, Sept.- 24 (3y the Associate
Press) Thousands of tierman prison
ers, many of them taken by the
Americans ft: the drive north of ih
Marne and southwest ?.?f Soissons, hav.
been working inx the .grain fields oi
France duringjthe last tew weeks.
In some instances a single French
tidier guards fifty or si.sty Germans
as they la>>or in the fre'-d. One Frencr.
s-cldier said he had 7-^een guardinr
prisoners all summer and that not on
of them had endeavored to escape
All ;of the Germans working as har
vesters still clung to their gas mask?
many of them carrying them on a
strap over their shouhier as they toil
ed in the field.. . ?
At night the German farmers' heir*
ers were taken to quarters in the dir'
ferent farming districts where tern
porary buildfngs, surrounded by :
high barbed wire fence had beer,
erected. ' -
Subscribe to The Daily Item. On'
10c per week, delivered.
FERTILIZER FOR SALE?We ar,
going to sell all the Meal, Acid
Lime and mired goods in stoci
here for immediate shipment, a'
bargain prices. Please call us be
fore stock sold ou:. Southern Bir*.
kerage Co. Phone No. 89._
FOR SALE?In settlement McBridt
estate I offer 1,000 acres Jaque
Ia,nds, tracts 47 to 16 acres, wei:
located in famous Pudding Swamp
' tobacco section. The four 1917
prize corn clubs boys of Sumteu
and Clarendon counties live one to
eight miles away and grow 70 to
90 bushels on sa?ne type soil. A
nearby tract of similar unin;proved
land was paid for out of last year's
crop. Prices right^and terms rea
sonable. E. W. Dabbs. Trustee
M iyesville. S. C.
BEESWA X \V A XTED -- A n y qua nt r
large or smell. Am payimr I
cash P'-icf. S?f- me if you hav*
r?ny. N G. 0?teen.
FOR SALE--F O H 'Nt"
.l:trkf.i?u st.-tl.).. owthiTT": v?rv Jr..1
Ktraw ?*ni '?;!?< I?*!*1 fi'v Chen-.'
?-.?.! '?"??>; i \yoi ? hi.- -.-.iKd
fiiah h\ Pi^MtHon t*??li"*re A.
Sfr-ii-j? Sumte?*. S C.
MTLLFRS? CERTIFICATES?Can h<
obtained at Ttem Office at reaso*
able prices in lots of 100 or more.
BORNEO 11
y STOMACH," SMS
WELL KNOWN MERCHANT OF IX
MAN TELLS OF TERRIBLE SUF
FERING AND HOW HE FINAL
LY ELIMINATED IT.
Itfvice for Stom?oh li mi
??tmat
uour
In the
There arc but very few medicines
that have any -.permanently-beneficial
: effect upon real nervous ' dyspepsia,
because most medicines are made* to
;engest yoar food artificialy instead of
! your stomach doing it This treat
ment is wrong. It helps but for th?^
j time being and as long as you take it.
I Nervous dyspepsia and gas is of ner
vous origin, which inhabits the diges
tive process, and not a lack of gas
tric .i-?ce. Upon this true medical
fact very few-medicines are prepar
; ed, and one of~these few is Dreco,
j the new herb-and-root medicine,
j Why Dreco helps nervous dyspep
j sia is easily understood when you re
j member that the digesive glands in
j the stomach are operated by nerve
j force, and Dreco contains natural :n
| gredients which urge these stomach
j neves to action. This feature makes'
(Dreco an unusually successful rem-!
I edy for the permanent relief of gas m
We have hundreds of inquiries for farms of ail ?
sizes; locations wanted in every section. List youi
property with us and assure quick sale and the best
price. Write us today and let us include your place
in our big fall advertising bulletin sent to thousands -
of farm buyers everywhere. Our up-to-date meth- '
ods bring results. Write today.
DeLoach Realty Co., Inc.
4iThc Big Central Real Estate Agency"
'?Honest Dealing*?Qnick Service"
CLARK BUILDING
COLUMBIA,
Real Americanization.
"Make the United States
I For the purpose of arousing inter-;
One ^ Cst in the Fourtl1 Liberty Loan cam-"
'1 paign, and also to stimulate the pufc>-'
the stomach and nervous dyspepsia, language Nation" :-: the watchword! ' ,,7 7**T v ^
where ordinary dyspepsia medianes of the League's Committee on For- \ ? ^^i^th^r^*?^
a o-gn Press" .This committee is con- 1 th? "*Pon*bxlity tnat rests uponeae^
give' but temporary relief after
meal.
dixting a crusade'to obtain the elinv
j individual American, citizen tc do,
j part in putting the Fourth Qberty^
"Dreco did me lots of good and I'm ination of the teaching of German in, , , ,
going to take more of it." declare, W; the public/school* el the country ana j ? ??r.^op. a senes of sjh*
p.- Blackwell, the well known rncr- thP dlscopUnnnncn of newspapers! ^?r.. S"*^
chant of R. F, D. 3, Inman, S. C.. Jn printe<l in German. The thought back
ja signed statement. "Food burned in
my stomach and I'd have to vomit.
j Dreco eliminated all this and I'm bet
ter all around. I am .recommending
this excellent medicine to all my
friends." *
Dreco -is harmless. It is easy to
! under the authorization of ti:,e
j erty Loan Committee, .which adver>'
oi this effort of the League, however,!.' . vw???~ ^
? , , ? ? , , t . - . a tisements the newspapers hare been
as set forth by Colonel Lydecr.er .m n , . . * * ? ? ?
_A _ _ r~ u~..~?.vj requested to print as generally as
jjpbssible, through the cooperate
i merchants and business inft:i
., j Daily Item has purchased ^the,
Know tne English tongue, says CoL] ^
Lydecker. "To refuse to learn it is .. 3
a recent interview, goes far
enemy alien considerations.
beyond
ring the continuance of the cam
get, Pleasant to take and its effects to fling d^nce at the nation Toj^ m f these' advertisements,
arc sure and permanent. All good neglect to learn it is voluntarily to fcusin<JSS men ofSumter ^^
drug stores in this section dispose remain unfit-for the duties of Amer-- ~?ij
T-v j, . * , , . , . i tribute to the good of the cause. The~
Dreco and it is particularly recom- ican citizenship. We are justified in ?
mended in Sumter by Sibert*s Drug expecting open'and loyal conduct.
Store, where the Dreco Man is male- and we claim the right to insist up
| ing his heado,uarters and explaining or. this. Americanization really meanr
the medicine to all interested.?Advt.
"\vbat makes you think this sttrt)
vould be particularly interesting *e
Jhe readers of a woman's magazine?'
'Well, itl all about raen.,r?Ju?lge.
education. If we educate our people
properly we shall make, true Ameri
cans of our citizen* of whatever blood
Americans wise in knowledge of th<
principles of democracy and true in
heart for fairness and generosity be
tween men. Great patience has beer
exorcised in our efforts to convinc
the foreigners. In the case of those
act new convinced, justice to lh~
. cause for whl^h wc tight demands
; strenrer measures., They must be
compelled to convince themselves. of
the value and the justice of America i
ideas.' r.nd this' requires a knowl
Licorice Root in Demand.
Licorice root is found in various
parts of the province of Cape of Good
Hope. After its introduction there a
number of farmers planfed it and then.
probably on account of the lack of
a market neglected it Later It so
spread in'-csrtain localities as to be
come a pest difficult to eradicate. Now,
Its usef ulness has been recognized, and
j^.d|jBgOT'Bftyl-'twjc>^t^te-a pound for its
"the pjflvltesexrf Egging it^ ? l^ague^uHetmr.rvr
edge of the English language."
A'.l the arguments on-that so fro j
qncrtly nebulous term "Americaniza- j
tion" wou'd seem to b<^ -summed up
here. What could be simpler or more j
common-sensible than that a man to
first of the advertisements ..^efej^
printed yesterday, and more. w?l" f oK:'
?ow each day. Our subscribers \are?
advised to read them aH. These ad'-^
vertisements were prepared , by jthe"
best talent in America., such xien- a^
George Ade, Senator Lodge. ;
Crane and many other distinguish^^:
men having written the messages.fhaj?
he government wishes to get before^
the people by means of ? newspapeti|
publicity. The government de'pe
upon the newspapers arid the pt
spifit of the business men to
out its Liberty Lorn publicity
paign. - The series of advertiser
that appear in T^e Daily Ite
be a directory of the business n^en;^|
S?mter who nre willing;-to as:?t^t.^^H
government in this manner.
The Burglar's Visit.
?Don't iiont dear. He's token txitb^H
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at Styles For
q- All the new styles and colors in Hats
are now on display.
II We are handling the Rnox, Schoeble
and Mallory Cravenetted Hats.
(j[ These lines are an insurance to the '
wearer of the greatest satisfaction.
q PRICES?$3.00 to $10.00.
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